Makoto Shinkai\u2019s\u00a02007 anime \u201c5 Centimeters Per Second\u201d is being adapted into a live-action film.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The task fell to 34-year-old Yoshiyuki Okuyama, an up-and-coming director and photographer.<\/p>\n
Working with staff around his own age, he studied the original anime to turn it into a story of renewal and personal growth as\u00a0a lonely young man comes once again to appreciate the richness the world has to offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we did location scouting in Tokyo and Tanegashima island in Kagoshima Prefecture, we found places that featured in the original animated film,\u201d Okuyama said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to pay tribute\u00a0to Shinkai and his staff by taking on the challenge of capturing the scenes from the same viewing angle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okuyama made a list of each cut from the original work and studied the camera movements, the expression of light and other factors.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0opted to use a fixed camera for scenes in which Takaki (played by Hokuto Matsumura) spends his adolescent years. The aim was to show how isolated the character is from society.<\/p>\n
In contrast, he used a handheld camera for scenes in which Takaki develops feelings for Akari, his first love, during his elementary and junior high school years. The aim was to depict a freewheeling sense of time.<\/p>\n
While Takaki grows increasingly lonely as he clings to his memories of Akari, he is portrayed in the live-action version as a young man who is restored through his interactions with adults.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most difficult part for us was how to incorporate his innermost thoughts,\u201d Okuyama said. \u201cBut we took on the challenge and managed to make it work, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shinkai, who was also 34 years old when he released the original anime film, has won critical acclaim for his works featuring landscapes that hark to emotions left unspoken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can still acutely remember the bittersweet sensation, melancholic sentiment and vexation that I vividly felt when I was in my teens and 20s,\u201d\u00a0Okuyama said. \u201cI feel like I was meant to be involved with this project at such a timing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Makoto Shinkai\u2019s\u00a02007 anime \u201c5 Centimeters Per Second\u201d is being adapted into a live-action film.\u00a0 The task fell to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78971,64,63,2331,134,941,344,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-273235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-asahi-shimbun","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}